Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...respect, however, "The Cat and the Canary" fails as did its fellow, "The Bat". Both plays cry aloud for a solution from beginning to final denouement, but neither supplies a real clue from which the true secret can be deduced. In fact every effort is made to mislead the earnest spectator to a wrong conclusion. But this is an unimportant detail. Anyone who likes to spend an uneasy, riotous evening, and to observe the instability of his neighbor's equilibrium will do well to visit "The Cat and the Canary...
...during the recess-placing a total of 580 cases on the docket. On the first day of the Court's Fall session motions were heard but no arguments and the Court adjourned to pay a formal call on President Coolidge. On the second day the Court turned in earnest to demolishing the great mass of work before...
...Monday the Cross Country routine will begin in real earnest when the squad moves to its quarters in the Homer Grammar School in Belmont and begins daily practice over the two Belmont courses...
...regarded as especially choice academic tidbits, available only to those who have demonstrated their industry and sobriety by reaching the junior or senior class within the first four groups. This arrangement is far more just all round than the previous one. Students who have given such proof of earnest scholarship are more likely to be really interested in music than ennuied students merely in search of a quiet place to sleep. On the other hand students who have for two and even three years struggled up into the first four groups deserve some cool oasis in which to ease their...
...surprised to find Americans had not learned how generally castor oil discipline was administered by the Fascisti. To a reporter she said: ' Every Communist found was compelled either to sip or gulp a pint of castor oil. It was amusing to see Fascisti, wearing black shirts and looking very earnest, bottles sticking out of their hip pockets, chasing wildly down the street after a shrieking Communist. Then the capture, the terrible assault, hurling the luckless Red to the sidewalk, injecting the bottle into his mouth to the muffled accompaniment of blasphemy of all the gods and devils in the universe...